Can't believe your eyes
2000-08-24 16:30:22+02 by Larry Burton 0 comments
That yellow first down line that we saw on televised football games last season and those replaced billboards that we saw on CBS's coverage of the new year have bothered me on a subliminal level since seeing them. This article in Technology Review brought home why.
But the ramifications of this new technology reach beyond satellite imagery. As live electronic manipulation becomes practical, the credibility of all video will become just as suspect as Soviet Cold War photos. The problem stems from the nature of modern video. Live or not, it is made of pixels, and as Livingston says, pixels can be changed.